Monday, 19 May 2014

I think I need to re-categorise my Mondays as not just a day for Debian, but
also a day for doing general tinkering.

I got up this morning and managed to knock out a 10km run. I was very happy to
be back under an hour again. Fingers crossed my performance continues to
improve. I've entered Zoe and I in the Rotary Club of Brisbane Centenary Fun
Run on Sunday, so I'll take it easy for the rest of the week between now
and then I think.

There's a 1km before the 10km, so Zoe can have a go at running that, and then
I'll throw her in the jogging stroller and push her for the 10km. It'll be good
practice for the City2South (not that I'll be pushing her for that one).

After I got home from the run and had some breakfast, and popped out to collect
a package from the post office. It was the case
for my BeagleBone Black that I'd ordered.

I then ducked over to Jaycar to get another bit that I needed to convert
Smudge's cat feeder over from running off batteries to using a DC power supply.

Then I popped into the Valley to try and get a pair of Doc Martens, but they
were out of my size, so I had to drive over to West End to try another store.

Once I finally got home again, I decided to assemble the BoneBox. It proved
mighty annoying removing the backing paper from the acrylic. Thank goodness I
had a razor blade.

The crowning accomplishment for the day was definitely converting Smudge's cat
feeder over to using a DC plug pack. The thing's been chewing through D-cell
batteries at an alarming rate. I'm very happy with the result and that I didn't
manage to let the magic blue smoke out of the cat feeder.

It was looking a little bit like it might rain, and I wanted to grab a microSD
card from OfficeWorks, so after lunch I drove to OfficeWorks, grabbed the
microSD card and drove to Kindergarten to pick up Zoe.

Zoe wanted to play at Megan's house after Kindergarten, so we went back there
for a little bit, and then we headed home so I could start dinner.

I managed to overcook the stir fry veggies in the Thermomix because I was
pretty much making it up as I went along, and they all reduced down to mush,
but Zoe didn't mind as long as there were hokkien noodles involved, so I didn't
make a big deal about it and neither did she.

She wanted to sleep in the top bunk, but chickened out again when it came to
lights out. Maybe tomorrow night.